Textbook updates, February 14

In the past few months the McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine has grown in a number of ways. Here’s a quick summary of changes that are worth exploring.

New and updated chapters

New and revised chapters added to the table of contents:

• A selection of signs and symptoms, including Chest Pain, Diarrhea, Hirsutism, Pain Management: Basic Principles, Respirations
• Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
• Acute Kidney Injury
• Aortic Diseases, including Aortic Aneurysms and Aortic Dissection
• Colorectal Cancer Screening
• Crohn Disease
• Food Hypersensitivity
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
• Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Giant Cell Arteritis
• Gout
• Hypoparathyroidism
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Liver Diseases, including Acute Liver Failure, Cirrhosis, Viral Hepatitis
• Neurology, including Headache and Sensory Disturbances
• Osteoporosis
• Palliative Sedation: The Canadian Perspective
• Perioperative Direct Oral Anticoagulant (DOAC) Management
• Pleural Diseases, including Pleural Effusion and Pneumothorax
• Procedures, including Arthrocentesis: Knee, Wrist, Ankle, Pleural Drainage, Procedural Sedation and Analgesia, Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS)
• Psychiatry, including Delirium; Dementia: General Considerations; Perinatal Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Spondyloarthritides, including Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Thalassemia
• Toxicology, including Approach to the Poisoned Patient, Acetaminophen (Paracetamol), Digoxin and Other Cardiac Glycosides, Lithium Toxicity

Mobile app updates

Our mobile apps, available for Apple phones and Android devices, continue to receive frequent updates to improve your comfort of use. Some of the recent changes include:

• A revamped layout for In the Spotlight articles
• Convenient browsing of contents by jumping directly to different chapter sections using the dedicated Sections icon at the bottom of the screen
• Improved readability when scrolling through the text
• Tweaks improving video playback

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